Student Fights Back Against Bullies After Losing 1/3 Of Her Body Weight

Meghan Gilbert is a 21 year old student from Dallas, Texas, and she once weighed 200lbs/15st after developing an eating disorder.

Overweight as a child, Meghan believes her binge-eating disorder began after an all-you-can-eat cruise, where she would eat for example multiple servings of lasagna followed by six bowls of ice cream in one sitting!

The Daily Mail reports that at school, fellow classmates would nickname her “thunder thighs”, because they claimed her legs “jiggled” so much that “thunder struck”.

Gilbert was diagnosed with anxiety and depression which only hit harder as she was bullied – after seeing how miserable she looked in her senior school photographs, she was determined to make a change.

She started off by exercising every day in her local park, and then got herself a personal trainer. Now, she’s grown to love working out.

Of course, it wasn’t a transformation that happened within seconds, as she admits: “At first it was hard, but I knew I had to push through it and grew to love working out, I believe hard times make you grow.

I learned to eat the right foods and the correct amount too, I started strength training and began to love exercising.”

Nowadays Meghan weighs 137lbs/9st 11lbs, and is promoting her fitness journey as a young fitness model on her Instagram.